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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ...[December 8]], [[1542]] – [[February 8]], [[1587]]), better known as '''Mary, Queen of Scots,''' w...
19: ...iage proposition, went into hiding in [[Stirling Castle]], where preparations were made for Mary's coro...
22: ...s Queen of Scots in the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle on [[September 9]] [[1543]]. Due to the age of ...
24: ...vet mantle, with a train furred with ermine, was fastened around her tiny neck, and a jeweled satin gow...
26: ...n anointing her with the holy oil on her back, breast, and the palms of her hands. When the chill air s... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...was the fifth and final monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succeeded her half-sister, [[Mary I of...
9: ...y College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
16: ...r as he married his succession of wives. Henry's last wife [[Catherine Parr]] helped reconcile the King...
27: ...en wished to put a member of the popular Tudor dynasty to death. Mary attempted to remove Elizabeth fro...
33: ...Catholic rites. Elizabeth I's coronation was the last one during which the Latin service was used; futu... - Narcissi (1567 bytes)
15: ...sian]] word of this plant, نرگس (''Nargis''). - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...(now dry) was 19 [[kilometre|km]] (12 [[mile]]s) east, near the ancient city of [[Canopus (Egypt)|Canop...
3: ...he Great]], and as the seat of the [[Ptolemaic dynasty|Ptolemaic]] rulers of Egypt quickly became one o...
7: ... Alexandria's Eastern Harbour, close to Kait Bey Castle]]
21: A number of the more fantastic foundation myths are found in the [[Alexander R...
23: ...ley]]. If such a city was to be on the Egyptian coast, there was only one possible site, behind the scr... - Brunei (7197 bytes)
1: ...th China Sea]], it is completely surrounded by [[East Malaysia]].
3: ... one of the members of the [[Association of Southeast Asian Nations]] (ASEAN) and the [[Asia-Pacific Ec...
5: ...1606;ي دارالسلام<br>Negara Brunei Darussalam...
60: ...ans of Brunei|title has passed within the same dynasty]] since the 15th century, is the head of state a...
75: ... part, only about 10,000 live in the mountainous eastern part, the district of [[Temburong]]. Major tow... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines of the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]], ...
6: ...sra'el")<br>دولة اسرائيل<br>("Dawlat I...
68: ...im]] [[Caliphate]] conquered the land from the [[Eastern Roman Empire]] ([[Byzantine]]s) in [[638]] CE ...
73: ...vided the mandated territory into two parts. The eastern portion, called [[Transjordan]], became the Ar...
89: ...ded into a western part annexed by Israel and an eastern part annexed by Jordan. Jordan's annexation o... - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
1: ... and [[People's Republic of China|China]] in the easternmost part of the country. It is among the poore...
5: ...1605;ی افغانستان'''<br>'''Da Afghanistan Isl...
30: | '''[[Land borders]]'''<br>'''[[Coastline]]''' || 5,529 km<br>none
68: The last period of stability in Afghanistan lay between [[...
72: ...ern Alliance]] strongholds primarily in the northeast. The Taliban sought to impose a strict interpreta... - Sudan (18856 bytes)
2: ...o the east, [[Kenya]] and [[Uganda]] to the southeast, [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] and the [[C...
8: ...1607;ورية السودان <br> Jumhuriyat as-S...
98: ...hr al Jabal]], [[Blue Nile, Sudan|Blue Nile]], [[East Equatoria]], [[Junqali]], [[Kassala (state)|Kassa...
106: ...y flat plains, though there are mountains in the east and west. The climate is tropical in the south; a...
113: ...1999, Sudan began exporting crude oil and in the last quarter of 1999 recorded its first trade surplus,... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
1: ...Federation of Malaysia''' is a country in [[Southeast Asia]]. It consists of two geographical regions d...
5: ...] and borders the Sultanate of [[Brunei]] on the east, south, and west.
8: ...1578;وان مليسيا'''</big></big>
69: [[Image:KLCC_PetronasTowers.JPG|thumb|300px|Kuala Lumpur's landmark, the...
74: ... [[Malay Peninsula]] developed as a major [[Southeast Asia]]n commercial centre related to China. [[Pto... - Aswan (1042 bytes)
6: ...governorate]] of the same name. It stands on the east bank of the [[Nile]] at the first [[cataract]] an...
8: ...bited places in the world; as of early 2001, the last rain here was 6 years ago. In [[Nubia]]n settleme... - Trajans Column (10003 bytes)
5: ...disappeared in the [[Middle Ages]]. On December 4 1587, the top was crowned by [[Pope Sixtus V]] with a ...
21: ... accurately. Despite numerous earthquakes in the past, the column today leans at an angle of less than ... - Politics (7193 bytes)
18: ...hies have existed in one form or another for the past 5000 years of human history.
25: ...asses no longer existed and every person was the master of his own fate.
64: [[ar:سياسة]]
66:
78: [[fa:سیاست]] - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...gan]] also refers to him as the last scientific [[astrologer]].
4: ...ian to [[Rudolf II|Emperor Rudolf II]], and court astrologer to [[Albrecht von Wallenstein|General Wall...
13: ...o look at it." At age nine, he observed another astronomical event, the [[Lunar eclipse]] of [[1580]]...
15: ...for the vacant post of teacher of mathematics and astronomy at the Protestant school in Graz, Austria. ...
33: ...t circles. Using that knowledge, he was the first astronomer to successfully predict a [[transit of Ven... - Timeline of United States pre-history (before 1600) (1679 bytes)
18: ...a Verrazano]], working for [[France]], explores coastline from present-day [[North Carolina]] to [[Main...
21: *[[1587]]-Sir [[Walter Raleigh]] founds [[Roanoke Colony]... - Monsoon (5846 bytes)
5: ...st during one half of the year and from the northeast during the other.
7: ...ore likely that he was simply the first Greek to master the monsoon, as Yemeni sailors were trading wit...
20: Even more broadly, in the geological past, it is now understood, monsoon systems must have ...
23: ...mon summer sight from the sunny skies along the coast). The North American monsoon is associated an are...
25: === North-east Winter Monsoon === - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
3: ...an''' was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[philosopher]], [[astronomer]], and [[occultist]] executed as a [[heres...
7: ...a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] friar at the [[Monastery]] of Saint Domenico near [[Naples]]. In [[1572...
15: ...uno's feats of memory were apparently based, at least in part, on an elaborate system of mnemonics, but...
21: ...rts to Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spy master, have been found in surviving records of Walsin...
25: ...lay authorities before falling foul of the ecclesiastics of whatever sect. - Gerardus Mercator (3294 bytes)
14: ...|thumb|right|300px|Rumold's world map, drawn in [[1587]] after his father's map of 1567 (published in 15... - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
1: ...upied parts of [[Central Asia]] and the [[Middle East]] from the [[11th century|11th]] to [[14th centur...
3: ... Europe against the [[Mongol]] invaders from the East, defending the Islamic world against [[Crusade|Cr...
5: ... directions so that it bordered [[China]] in the East and the Byzantine Empire in the West. When Malik ...
7: ...of Rüm]] in [[Anatolia]] remained. As the dynasty declined in the middle of the [[13th century]], ...
102: *[http://www.islamicarchitecture.org/dynasties/seljuks.html The Seljuks: Great Seljuks] - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
1: ...he [[Persian Gulf]] ([[Southwest Asia]]/[[Middle East]], [[Asia]]). [[Saudi Arabia]] is to the west and...
65: A strategic position between East and West, fertile lands, fresh water, and pearl d...
67: ...e bigger region of Ahsa, Qatif (both are now the eastern province of Saudi Arabia) as well as Awal (now...
109: ...low central escarpment, in the [[Persian Gulf]], east of [[Saudi Arabia]]. The highest point is the 12...
111: ...ary with another country but does have a 161 km coastline and claims a further 12 [[Nautical mile|nm]] ... - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
1: '''Famous [[astronomer]]s and [[astrophysicist]]s''' include:
90: *[[Louis Boyer (astronomer)|Louis Boyer]] ([[France]])
132: *[[Josep Comas Sol ([[Spain]])<!--Last name = "Comas Solᦱuot;, list under C -->
166: *[[Terence Dickinson]], ([[Canada]]), astronomer and author
200: *[[Johannes Fabricius]] ([[Netherlands]], [[1587]] – [[1615]])
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